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by sprash 8y ago
> I'm lost, can you explain? Lets assume Instruction I_n is dependent on I_n-1 is dependent on ... I_1 (I_1->I_2->...->I_n). The Instuction I_i takes t_i amount of time. Lets further assume those Instructions can be pipelin
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by sprash 8y ago
> Well, most code isn't performance critical. In principle yes, but it is hard to predict which code will be at some point performance critical and which code will not. In the worst case you chain a lot of alleged "non performa
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I think the X32 feature is vastly underused. Ideally every application that is unlikely to use more than 2GB of memory should use the X32 ABI. Cache latency is the most important bottleneck of today's general purpose CPUs. X32 Helps a
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by sprash 8y ago
Depends on your window manager. I use a heavily modified version of dwm, that specifically addresses latency. With Gnome et al you are most certainly in high latency hell on X11.
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by sprash 8y ago
> Superior performance? Like when windows take a whole second to appear because the protocol is synchronous and the server is busy doing something else? Might be true, never happened to me. But what about FPS in Games. X11 beats it there
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by sprash 8y ago
In my experience X11 has zero shortcomings compared to Wayland. The code might be ancient and arcane at some points but the performance and features (hello "ssh -X") are actually far superior. Why do we need Wayland?
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Teletype Model 19 (and Model 15) Demonstration(youtube.com)
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by sprash 8y ago
Funny that minor side project of KDE is now responsible for the vast majority of today's Internet traffic. Did the original authors of KHTML ever receive a single dime for their work?
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by sprash 8y ago
Why are you spreading so much misinformation? > only SPARC V8 is an open standard. The OpenSPARC T2 is v9. "Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T2 source code is licensed under the GPL
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by sprash 8y ago
> Nobody that works on RISC-V believes that a mew ISA will change the game in terms of performance. That's not really the main goal. And this is why they will fail. RISC-V suffers hugely from NIHS and would have no chance against an
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by sprash 8y ago
In the research paper it literally says that Thump-2 is 7% smaller than RVC, which is in agreement with my personal experiments. Also, how are register windows a failure?
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by sprash 8y ago
I don't understand the hype around RISC-V. The single most important bottleneck in general Computing nowadays is memory latency. However code density of RISC-V is absolutely underwhelming and does not even beat ARM-Thumb which is liter
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by sprash 8y ago
False dichotomy indeed. Right now I'm testing runit (on void linux) for my production machines. My experience since more than a year: Once it runs it runs, literally zero surprises so far. The general volatility of systemd introduces s
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It is going to Excel in every aspect.
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If I know all of the above mentioned quantifiable objective variables with a reasonable accuracy I can make a much more informed decision. Again, why do I need humanities for that decision? What are the solutions they have to offer? How can
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> It is naïve to believe that every problem can be treated like this. Is it really? I can make abstract models of all kinds of things and still get accurate predictions. The movement of single atoms in a gas is very "complex".
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> Engineers are just as prone to misinformation as any other field. I would argue that this is exactly not the case because they know how to employ the scientific method. If humanities make all kinds of bold claims without providing logi
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Most humanities do not understand or even argue against the concepts of statistics. It might well be that she even lacked the capabilities to make an argument like you just made.
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When their real goal is to "tackle misinformation" they should abolish any thinking prevalent in the humanities. If you want pure objective truth you need logic and evidence. Basically the tools that are employed by Math, Physics
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I work in finance and talked to somebody who implemented a Bloomberg terminal wall in VR. This would be a great application for VR since you never can have enough Bloomberg terminals open and usually never have enough screen space. However
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by sprash 8y ago
Yes it also only works well with GPUs. GPU-Ram communication is all about bandwidth. General purpose CPUs are all about latency. Only very specialized problems would benefit from memory compression. On the other Hand compression will increa
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Original catalog entry / advertisement can be found here on page 18: http://informationdisplay.org/Portals/InformationDisplay/Iss...
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by sprash 8y ago
Ok... Now I feel the sudden urge to build a working terminal with a Charactron. Why can't I have simple hobbies.
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by sprash 8y ago
In comparison to rasterization, ray tracing does a perfectly good job of doing correct reflections. However from a psychovisual standpoint correct reflections are the least important thing to look for. Just use a dedicated cube map for a sc
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by sprash 9y ago
I first saw the plot here: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15558/producti...
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by sprash 9y ago
Supply and demand does a great job of explaining depressed wages. We had two kinds supply shocks in the recent history in the labor market. One is women entering the workforce and the second is mass immigration. Both coincided at the end of
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by sprash 9y ago
I already made 5k shorting facebook. Shares could easily fall below $30. Easy money.
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High trust societies are the way they are because of genetic traits of its citizens. Especially in Scandinavian and other northern countries for tens of thousands of years the individual was only able to survive the long winter when it was
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An actual Linux distribution that fits on a floppy is still available here: http://asm.sourceforge.net/asmutils.html
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Ok now I understand why we need such a thing, thank you very much. My knowledge does not go beyond good old Hatree-Fock on that matter. I thought this is a legitimate question because in theory this device is not build to discover any new p

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